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Title: All The Beauty of the Sun

Subtitle: The Boy I Love, Book 2

Author: Marion Husband

Narrator: Ben Elliot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Love and loyalty are put to the test in the aftermath of the First World War.

Soho 1925. Two young men meet - for one of them this is love at first sight, for the other only lust and guilt....

Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings. He leaves behind Patrick, the man he has loved since they met in the trenches in 1918, needing to discover if he has the strength to live without him and wanting to explore the kind of life he might have lived had it not been for the war. In Bohemian Soho, Paul meets Edmund, whose passionate love changes Pauls idea of himself. With Edmund, Paul begins to believe that he may have another life to live, free of the guilt and regrets of the past.

But the past is not so easy to escape, and when Patrick follows Paul to London a decision must be made that will affect all their lives.

Critic Reviews:

"As with all the best novelists, Husband's talent seems to draw its energy from the experience of writing from perspectives far removed from her own as she inhabits other genders, other sexualities, other eras. Her ventriloquism is compelling." (Patrick Gale)

"Marion Husband explores the morality of wartime Britain with intelligent and compassionate insight." (Mslexia)

Members Reviews:

Bravo Ms Husband!

This new title in the series is set in plot/time between Husband's novels The Boy I Love and Paper Moon. 1925 - the period between the great wars - Lawrence Hawker, a successful gallery owner stages the first exhibition of works by a painter highly recommended by a mutual friend. The paintings depict wartime portraits of soldiers in the trenches in painful yet tender poses/scenario - some with controversial homo-erotic overtones. Thus sets the stage for the return of Paul Harris, who leaves behind lover and protector Patrick, as he's lured back to his homeland from his North African exile by potential fame and fortune but has to face old ghosts and past misdeeds.

Husband re-introduces characters from The Boy I Love (Paul's father, his son, his ex-in-laws, war-buddies) but also introduces an exciting cast of new characters associated with the art world - Ann (ingénue, model), Edmund (very young, aimless wannabe artist), Joseph (up-and-coming painter who's fighting Edmund for Ann's attentions). With sinister-like behind-the-scenes machinations is Matthew (ex-priest, ex-soldier, ruined mind) whose connection to several of these afore-mentioned characters go far deeper and darker than can be imagined. Despite his resolve - Paul falls into a heady affair with the much younger Edmund, who's exploring his sexuality and seeking new direction for his life. George Harris acts against better judgement when he reunites Paul with Bobby, his own `son' left behind when he escaped overseas from homosexual persecution - will this act lead to further heartache and disaster. New choices face Paul when torn between having or losing his son all over again, and to what extent does his recent infatuation with Edmund impact on his long-time relationship with Patrick. And what will the faithful, loyal Patrick do when he also returns to London to retrieve Paul from the dilemmas and disasters of his own making?

Marion Husband writes complicated, conflicted characters brilliantly - they straddle the very fine line between maudlin and overly-tortured.